The film grossed about $260 million from the one Las Vegas location, which generally charges over $100 a ticket.
One movie, from one venue, cracked the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2025. That sounds impossible until you realize that the specific venue charges almost 10 times what other theaters charge for that movie and has way, way more seats.
The movie is 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, and the venue is the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. A new report claims that the highly controversial re-release of the film in the expansive, immersive venue grossed $260 million in 2025, and it did so in basically only four months, having opened in late August. That places it number 10 on a list of highest-grossing domestic film releases in 2025.
Of course, movies like How to Train Your Dragon (number nine at $262 million) or The Fantastic Four: First Steps (number eight at $274 million) charge roughly $15 depending on where or when you see them, while tickets for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere generally start around $100, and the venue is considerably larger than most movie theaters, seating over 18,000.
